ABSTRACT
OE oed or -od or -ad. -ee. as in assignee, grantee, lessee, derives either
from or as if from -e. the m suffix of the F pp. Occurring mostly in legal terms, it forms the correlative of the agential -or (as in assignor, lessor, etc.); it connotes the person to or for whom something is done. cr -ey, below, and:
-ee is the f fP of F vv, as in divorcee (a divorced woman) and Pierre Loti's Les Desenchantees. This fonn undoubtedly reinforced the influence of F -e (as in divorce, a divorced man) in the genesis of the pree suffix. The F -e comes from L -atus, m; -Ie from L -iita, f.
